Intelligent man’s guide to fighting terror

The ‘soft’ part of counter-terrorism — built around data and networking — parallels to ‘hard’ methods like guns and armour. But it’s when the two merge that a counterterrorism agent or special forces fighter knows what to look for and who to shoot, real-time and on-the-spot. General Stanley McChrystal’s special operations campaign in Iraq fused intelligence, analysis and operations to a degree never seen before. He was able to go after Al Qaeda in Iraq faster than the terror group could regenerate.

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